In what genre(s) do you write? A SURVEY!!!

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In which genres do you write?

  1. Crime & Thriller

    16 vote(s)
    20.0%
  2. Adventure

    24 vote(s)
    30.0%
  3. Fantasy

    44 vote(s)
    55.0%
  4. Historic

    12 vote(s)
    15.0%
  5. Romance

    13 vote(s)
    16.3%
  6. Science Fiction

    41 vote(s)
    51.3%
  7. Literary

    20 vote(s)
    25.0%
  8. Horror

    20 vote(s)
    25.0%
  9. Erotica

    10 vote(s)
    12.5%
  10. Other

    17 vote(s)
    21.3%
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  1. ugly henry

    ugly henry Member

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    About 90% horror. I also checked science fiction because some of my writing is in that genre but also a good portion is about the afterlife and time travel. I would think they're closer to science fiction than fantasy, at least the way I approach them.
     
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  2. JLT

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    I'm not sure what "literary" refers to. My writing now is poetry, song lyrics, memoir, and humor, and I can't see those fitting into any of the other categories listed. That's why I picked "other."
     
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    Another thing:

    This raises the question of what "creative writing" is. All writing is creative, in the sense that the writer is putting words together in a form that nobody else has done before. Of course, technical writing is probably at the left of that spectrum, since it its purpose is to transmit information, and nothing else. John Muir moved that needle a bit to the right when he wrote How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, because he inserted wry comments that made you laugh and made you think, and transmitted much of his own value system to the work. That stamp of personality makes it, in my mind, the first step towards truly creative writing.

    At the other end of the spectrum, you have writing that is intended to elicit emotions or insights, which is the domain of the best poetry. The writers lead you into a sort of internal world, holding up mirrors that allow you to see yourself, or to see others in a different light.

    And some writers, in science fiction and fantasy, give the readers worlds to live in that are not the ones they live in. They sometimes create these worlds from whole cloth.

    But I stress that it's a continuum. A few writers can combine these genres, mixing and matching to their taste.
     
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  4. matwoolf

    matwoolf Banned Contributor

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    Non-fiction. I read a lot of books where people just catch a ship or went to work in 1938. Nothing happens - principle applied to my creative endeavours.
     
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    Mostly Gothic horror; sometimes with a little sci-fi and hstorical fusion.
     
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